#Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of #pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.

#Abortion #Pregnancy #Women #Mothers #Families #RoeVWade #Health #HealthCare

propublica.org/article/georgia…

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica’s Report on Amber Thurman, Candi Miller Deaths

In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outside individuals.”

^ProPublica

Via Prof. Bernard Fraga:

#Georgia is the first state to release full vote history for 2024. As a share of the citizen voting-age population, turnout rates went up for all groups compared to 2020 🚨except Black Georgians🚨

Via Mississippi news editor Ashton Pittman:

#Russia is purposefully targeting Black voters with bomb threats to help Donald Trump. That's all anybody should need to know.

Jonathan Martin:

Source in #Georgia says yet more bomb threats coming into heavily black polling stations there.

Via Ballotpedia
@ballotpedia
7:00 PM · Nov 5, 2024

"Polls are now closed in in #Florida, #Georgia, #SouthCarolina, #Virginia, and #Vermont.

If you are still in line to vote, you can stay in line until you have cast your ballot.

🔖 Bookmark this page to check back on #election results."

ballotpedia.org/Election_resul…

Via Blue Georgia
@blueatlgeorgia
4:41 PM · Nov 5, 2024

"Three #polling locations in major blue areas of Fulton, Cobb, and Gwinnett counties are going to stay open later because of bomb threats originating from Russia.

MAGA clowns were celebrating the disruption until they found out folks will now be able to vote even later."

#Georgia

Via Anthony Michael Kreis
@anthonymkreis
6:35 PM · Nov 5, 2024

"Black #voters are under attack in #Georgia by foreign adversaries making false bomb threats. Get out there and vote Georgia ASAP-- and if you're in line, stay in line."

2fer:

Scott MacFarlane:

NEW: Law enf officials est about 30 bomb threats hoaxes have targeted election-related locations nationwide: 2 sources familiar.. Around 17 fake bomb threats have targeted #Georgia alone...

Max Flugrath:

RNC & #Georgia GOP lose federal lawsuit seeking to stop county election offices from extending hours to give voters more time to hand deliver their mail ballots.

The decision comes from a #Trump-appointed judge who was a Federalist Society member. More context. ⬇️

Via Stephen Fowler:

Whoa - #Georgia Sec of State Brad Raffensperger says more than half a million people have already voted in Georgia as of noon

That's on track to potentially have ~1.2 million Election Day votes. #gapol

One thing that keeps creeping in from turnout reports today in GA & other swing states:

It appears that that some of the GOP turnout shift to early vote earlier/cannibalized from Election Day is also accompanied by D-inclined voters that did mail in 2020 shifting to E Day.

Via Kyle Cheney:

HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge in #Georgia has thrown out the RNC's claim that Georgia counties broke the law by accepting absentee ballots over the weekend.

The judge says their complaint lacked a "basic level of statutory review and reading comprehension."

Via Stephen Fowler:

Some quick updates from GaSecofState
Brad Raffensperger in #Georgia, #gapol:

Average line is ~2 mins

Average check in time is 49 seconds

E Day turnout will likely top a million (so likely more than 2020 totals)

The bulk of early results (4 million votes!) will come in by 8PM

Via Ken Dilanian:

New: The FBI is warning about a fabricated video purporting to be an alert issued by the FBI urging Americans to “vote remotely” due to a high terror threat at polling stations. The FBI is also flagging a video containing a fake FBI press release alleging that the management of five prisons in #Pennsylvania, #Georgia, and #Arizona rigged inmate voting and colluded with a political party. Disinformation is everywhere.

Amen.

Sen. Warnock in Atlanta: "I want you to hear the tragic irony of a man guilty of sexual assault saying he's going to do something for women whether they like it or not. America, pay attention. That's the language of a predator. And we don’t need a predator in the White House." #Trump #Georgia

#WompWomp

NEW: #Georgia judge rejects the RNC's request to require Fulton County to hire additional Republican poll workers for Election Day. democracydocket.com/news-alert…

Judge Rejects RNC Request for More Republican Poll Workers in Fulton County - Democracy Docket

A judge on Friday rejected a Republican request to order Fulton County, Georgia’s elections department to hire additional Republican poll workers for Election Day.

^{Democracy Docket}

Via Stephen Fowler:

As of Wednesday, 3.49 million Georgians have voted early!

~1.44 million voted earlier in 24 than 20
~1.37 million voted same/later in 24 than 20
~680k did not vote in GA in 2020 but voted early in 24
~263k voted on E Day in 20 but voted early in 24
#Georgia

2/ More:

More than 3.2 million Georgians have already voted.

That's a million more than at the same point in early voting in 2020.

#Georgia

👀

Via Kyle Griffin:

#Georgia voters surpassed the 2.9 million mark for total turnout today — breaking 40% of all active voters, according to the Secretary of State's office. That's about one million more voters than at the same point of early voting in 2020.

Via Rupar (who has the vid):

yikes! tons of empty seats in Atlanta just ahead of #Trump's event there

#Georgia

#WompWomp

Via #Georgia reporter Stephen Fowler:

#Trump wrapped his other event a little bit ago, and does not seem likely to start here at 6.

As of 5:30, basically the entire upper deck of the arena is empty, as is one whole section of the bottom and part of the one I’m standing in (below me is mostly reserved rows for press)

Via AJC’s Patricia Murphy:

Red counties in #Georgia are outpacing some of the biggest, bluest counties in Georgia’s record-breaking early vote so far. Details in today’s AJC politics newsletter. #gapol

ajc.com/politics/politically-g…

threadreaderapp.com/thread/185…

#Ukraine #Russia #Georgia #Hungary #Orban

#WompWomp

BREAKING: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has *rejected* Jeff Clark's bid to transfer his #Georgia criminal case to federal court.

documentcloud.org/documents/25…

In a related ruling, the 11th circuit rejected three Georgia false electors' claims that they were acting as "federal officers."

👉🏼1 of the judges (in a concurrence) said these Republicans were no more electors than Martin Sheen was president.👈🏼 [Oh snap]